This soy sauce stew meat is one of the dish that I tasted and learned after I come to the northern region. This cooking way is different from our typical way to stew meat. The ingredient we used to stew meat are different too! However, I quite like this dish!

I make a Hazelnut swiss roll with yam filling today. The yam used for the yam with pork belly dish yesterday did not finish the entire yam. I keep some to make yam filling today. The initial objective today is to make a painting swiss roll. I spend near to 2 hours to make Kai-lan, Rintoo and Panda with colourful batter. However, I failed to produce a nice painting swiss roll at the end. I guess it is due to the painting batter are too dry as i spend too long colouring them, it end up stick on the grease paper rather than my swiss roll. Anywhere, the swiss roll still successfully baked, just without the painting only. Those painting are really nice thou, really wasted!

Eat Healthy is important to me and my lovely baby as I'm still breasfeeding her. Therefore, I like to cook this yang qi and blood boosting soup. Another reason is I'm a soup lover, haha!

I used to cook soup using pot on the gas stove. When I saw most of the ready soup that we took at outside are steamed soup. The soup tasted very nice. I also try to learn to steam soup at home too. It really produce a nice soup using steam method. Another thing is we can control the flavoring at home, not like outside food contain alot of MSG which make us feel thirsty and unhealthy too! Lately I always used to steam soup when I need a small portion and I will use pressure cooker to cook soup if I need a larger portion.

The making of this soup is pretty simple. The only thing is it tooks 3-4 hours to steam it.

Ingredients:

3 pieces of pork ribs (blanch them)

1 tsp of chinese wolfberries

half of the lotus root ( slice it)

1 big bowl of water

Methods:

Fills 3/4 full of a big bowl and place it into the steaming pot. Put inall the ingredients and steam it over low heat for 3-4 hours. Add in the flavoring after that.

Friday, 30 November 2012

Recently only I learned that crinkle fries are produce from this type wave cutter. All the while I thought only can be produce from machine. Never explore never know! I was assuming waffle fries is produced by batter thru mould.

I always cut my finger while slicing vegetable. Finally i decided to spend more money to get a more high tech slicer with higher safety feature. At least it can reduce my chance getting cut again and hopefully it can last for at least 5 or 10 years! Am I dreaming?

In fact I feel so excited after purchased this new toy...=)! I keep finding chances to utilize this new toy, yeah!

This is recipies is inherited from my grandmom.Each reunion lunch during lunar new year,we never miss this dish. It always got very hot demand. For this spring roll, we are using minced pork meat, minced shrimps,onion,shallot and others flavoring and spice to make it. Then it will steam first before we fried it.The remaining stream roll can be keep in freezer for next time consumption.That's why we normally make quite a huge batches each time.When I move to the northern region, I realized that their fried spring roll is using meat strip rather than minced meat.The method is diferrent.

This is the Popiah that we always have it at home. I will prepare this as our dinner once each weekly or bi-weekly. For popiah skin, I did try to make it few times but hubby complaint it is thicker than ready bought from wet market. I give up to continue trying it as the effort putting on this experiment not worth. As for the popiah cup, sometimes I will buy the ready make cup from wet market but it is very expensive. If not mistaken, it cost是 30 cents per cup. I still hunting for the best recipes for this popiah cup. Those in the picture still not my satified popiah cup. By the way, the effort to fry this cups are not less that the popish skin, that's the reason it is quite expensive. The only different is popish cup can keep in air-tight container for next round consumption but popiah skin can not. Never try to freeze the popiah skin, may be it worked, who know!!

Methods:
1. Removed jicama and carrot skin, wash clean and drain dry. Then
shredded the them into thinly strips.
2. Heat the pan with 1 tbsp of oil and fried the garlic and shallot until fragrant
and add in minced shrimps and pork meat. Removed the pan from heat
once the meat are cooked.
3. Boil a liter of water in a suitable pot and put in all the fried ingredients to
cook until boiled. Turn the to low heat and continue to cook unitl the
jicama and carrot are soft. It took about 1-1.5 hours for typical pot and ~5
minutes for pressure cooker.

Method for chili sauce:
1. Wash clean and drain dry the chili, then remove its center and seeds. Cut
them into short strips.
2. Removed the garlic skin and cut them into smaller cube.
3. Blend both chili and garlic till fine. You may add in some
vinegar/lime juice when to make the process smoother.
4. Add in sugar and vinegar/lime juice and ready to serve.

This pressure cooker was bought during my confinement period from Singapore thru my brother. It cost me about SGD369.The reason trigger me to buy it is because all the food took so long to cook when preparing my confinement food. Another reason is after I go back to work, I need something to help me prepare our dinner fast. This cooker did help a a lot.

The set come with 6.5L and 3.0L pot sharing single pressure cooker head. But the set did come with another glass cover. It is basically 2 pots that you can switch thru and fro as pressure cooker or normal pot. The pots are made in Germany.

Bought this Fryer last year before maternity confinement in preparation to eat healthy during confinement period. But end up only used it after confinement as I dare not let my confinement aunty touch it. After she leave only I start to utilize it.

Bought it at Harvey Norman for about RM1199 with 2 years warranty and aditional RM 256 for another 3 years warranty. Being too kia su to have 5 years warranty on it. I have good experience with Harvey Norman on their warranty. Last few years, our Pioneer home theater DVD player not able to play majority of the CD, we sent it back to Harvey Norman and they did help us to sent for repair and the repair fee is under them as it is still under waranty.

Back to the topic. Generally this fryer is good for those ready food such as french fry, nutget, hash brown etc. In terms of raw food, homemade french fries, fried fish, and alot more still under experiment. Roasting nut also no problem. However, it do not give good result on wet batter, even wantan skin also I still can't get the good outcome. Need more experiments.

It is recomended to use spray oil to lightly coat the food before air fried it. I made a homemade oil spray rather then buying it from supermarket. The reason is its consumption very low and those ready in supermarket is quite a big tin. You may refer to page Homemade Oil Spray 自制油喷 to try self made oil spray .